Vehicle-body construction.



W. B. G. HERSHEY. VEHICLE BODY CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 15, 190B;

Patented Dec. 22, 1908.

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WILLIAM B. G. HERSHEY, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

VEHICLE-BODY consrnucrron.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 22, 1908.

Application flied June 16, 1908 Serial No. 438,476.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM B. C. HERSHEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle- Body Constructions, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the improvementof vehicle body construction and the objects of my invention are to provide a, combined body frame connection and floor support of simple and inexpensive construction which will operate to greatly strengthen the construction of a vehicle body and prevent the separation of the parts thereof, and to produce other improvements the details of construction of which will be more full pointed out hereinafter. These objects l accomplish in the manner illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a View in pers ective of one of the inner corners of a vehic e body showing my improvement in connection therewith and omitting the floor of the body, 2 is a sectional View on two planes as indicated by lines a;-x of Fig. 3,. and, Fig. 3 is an underside view of a vehicle body corner having my im rovement.

imilar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

For the pur ose of illustrating" my device, I have shown t e construction of but one corner of a vehicle body, the remaining corners thereof having the same construction.

1 represents a portion of one of the sides of the body and 2 a portion of one of the ends thereof. 3 represents a corner frame post which is secured to said side and endportions ofthe body, in the angle formed by the junction of said ortions.

4 represents t e inner longitudinal frame bar with which the lower portion of the side 1 of the vehicle body is connected and 5 re resents the corresponding frame bar of t e body back 2, these side and end frame bars being joined at their ends and extending at right angles with each other.

7 represents my improved bracket and connecting piece whichis in the nature of a metallic plate which comprises a horizontal frame connecting portion 7" which as shown more clearly in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawing, is secured by means of screwsor other suitable fastening devices 8 to the adjoining end portions of the body frame bars 4 and 5. A further connection between said bars and plate portion7 is effected by the employment of a bolt 9 which extends downward throu h the ends of the frame bars and through t e outer portion of the member 7 a of the plate 7.

'lhe portion 7 of the casting 7 which thus unites the undesrides of the adjoining frame members at the corner of a vehicle body, has formed therewith an inwardly projecting bracket member 7 the. latter preferably be ing in the nature of a substantially rectangular plate extension which is depressed below the portion 7 a and below the frame bars 4 and 5. This bracket projection 7 b has formed therewith at its inner corner a short upwardly projectin boss 7 having a central vertical opening therethrough which is adapted to receive a bolt 9 which also passes through the corner portion of the vehicle body floor 10, the latter bearing upon the upper side of the bracket projection 7 and having an underside recess adapted to receive the boss 7 As will readily be understood, the four bracket projections 7 of the four corner plates are thus made to provide a substantial support for the floor of the vehicle body, while t e outwardly projecting member 7 serves the purpose of firml uniting the side and end frame pieces of t e body, thereby providing a substantially integral form of corner parts.

I am aware that various forms of corner irons have been employed for buggy bodies for the purpose of formin substantial joints for the sides and ends of the body, but it will be noted that in the construction described,

the side and end pieces alone are joined by nay device and that said device performs the it) alitionalofiice of supporting the floor of the It is obvious that the device as shown and described, may be produced at a low cost of manufacture, and readily and easily afiixed in connection with the body frame.

What I claim, is: i

In a vehicle body, the combination with the floor, side and end members of the body and the side and end frame bars, of an integrally formed plate comprising a horizontally disposed frame uniting portion of such size as to underlie the adjacent portions of both the side and end frame bars, fastening devices which pass through said portion and I floor of the yehicle, substantially as shown; 10 which take into said side and end fr'arne bars, and described.

an inwardly rojecting horizontally disposed In testimony whereof I affix my signature portion which lies a distance below the frame in presence of two witnesses.

uniting portion equal to the thickness of the i WILLIAM B. C- HERSHEY;

floor of the vehicle, an upwardly extending boss formed upon said'inwardly projecting Witnesses:

portion, and a fastening member which 0. C. SHEPHERD, passes through said boss and through the L; CARL STOUGHTON. 

